Making Nature Social

Towards a Relationship with Nature

Rembrandt Zegers (Author)

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Making Nature Social

Towards a Relationship with Nature

Rembrandt Zegers (Author)

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As the global climate crisis and biodiversity loss deepen their impact and gain pace, Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature provides core insights into what it means to understand our relationship to nature. This relationship is illustrated through interviews with people working in different nature practices, including engaging with nature, non-human animals, place, advocacy, and with work organization values. Rembrandt Zegers argues that since non-humans do not use human language, meaning is conducted through the senses, giving rise to a knowing that manifests itself through the body first before finding its way socially in human language. Through these senses the relation to non-human others and nature can become a conversation; in other words, a relationship built on reciprocity. The book illustrates how these meanings occur and how these conversations happen, how crucial they are, and how they are connected. It dives deep into the essence of the lived experience of our relationship to nature and in doing so acknowledges how important the lived experience is for the purpose of a relationship with nature.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Reading Guidelines and Definitions

Part One: Knowing and Meaning

Chapter 1: How Do We Know About Nature?

Part Two: Nature Practices

Chapter 2: Engaging with Nature
Chapter 3: Engaging with Non-human Animals
Chapter 4: Engaging with Place
Chapter 5: Engaging in Advocacy for Nature
Chapter 6: Engaging in Work Organization Values

Part Three: Findings

Chapter 7: Lived Experience Shifts Meaning of Nature
Chapter 8: Nature as Relation

Part Four: Cultural Assumptions

Chapter 9: Navigating in the Culture Nature Split
Chapter 10: Rethinking the Psyche
Chapter 11: Towards a Relational Ecocentric Ethics
Chapter 12: Relational Contemplation, The Body, and Nature

Part Five: Looking Ahead
Chapter 13: Lived Experience Claiming Its Place
Chapter 14: Things are Moving

Further Reading
Afterword
References
About the Author

Product details

Published	Jun 15 2024
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	214
ISBN	9781666958829
Imprint	Lexington Books
Series	Environment and Society
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Rembrandt Zegers

Rembrandt Zegers received a PhD from the Universit…

Food for thought with lively conversations about nature experiences. The book addresses the importance of nature relating experiences and the need of thinking and observing through the body.

Susan Boonman-Berson, Bear at Work
This book challenges conventional Western epistemology (objectivism, secularism, and scientific materialism) and invites the reader to a new enchantment —a new emphatic relation— between humans and Nature.

Juan Gustavo Hernandez, Cross Cultural Bridges
Bringing a rich literature spanning from ecological ethics to phenomenology and psychoanalysis to bear on conversations with people who try, in different ways, to (re)connect with the natural world our culture is busy disconnecting us from, this book by Rembrandt Zegers is a supurb synthesis of theory and practice.

Arne Johan Vetlesen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, author of Animal Lives and Why They Matter